Description
CAMBRIDGE Ethics Exegesis and Philosophy Interpretation after Levinas 2007 Edition by Richard A. Cohen
The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'. Table of contents :- Introduction: philosophy as ethical exegesis; Part I. Exceeding Phenomenology: 1. Bergson and the emergence of an ecological age; 2. Science: phenomenology, intuition and philosophy; 3. The good work of Edmund Husserl; 4. Better than a questionable Heidegger; Part II. Good and Evil: 5. Alterity and alteration: development of an opus; 6. Maternal body/maternal psyche: contra psychoanalytic philosophy; 7. Humanism and the rights of exegesis; 8. What good is the Holocaust? On suffering and evil; 9. Ricoeur and the lure of self-esteem; 10. In conclusion; Index.